Hello,
I've attempted to install Mahjongg and Frozen Bubble.
Many games are listed in the 'Fun' section of 'Menu'.
None of the menu items except ACE-solitaire.swf execute. (I understand ACE is a .swf and separate from the other downloads)
I'm only looking for the two games not the whole slate of games.
Can anyone see what I am missing?
Do I need all that Perl code? Can I un-install to thin down my save file?

Thank you in advance for any suggestions.

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Last edited by Sky Aisling on Sun 07 Jan 2018, 23:07; edited 1 time in total

TBH, if you've installed those games from the PPM, there ought to be .desktop entries in /usr/share/applications. Have you actually done a re-boot, or a restart of 'X' since installing them?

I ask, because although the installation of Menu entries is all part of the package install process (if they are in the package to start with, that is), they don't always show up in the Menu until after 'X' has been re-started. Don't ask me why; it's just one of Pup's peculiarities sometimes. Least, that's how it works for me...

If you are getting these using PPM (Puppy Package Manager).
These games are coming from repositories for Ubuntu.
That can be a problem, because there are usually more than one listed for a specific game.
Try to get the one that is just the name of the game.
Example:
Mahjongg
Not KMahjongg, or GMahjongg, etc.......

I am in Xenialpup 7.5 which is close to Tahrpup for using stuff from Ubuntu.
Mahjongg_3.18.0-1 downloaded and installed OK.
It runs from the menu entry in fun.

Frozen Bubble does seem to need a lot of Perl stuff and like 18 dependencies.

The Perl stuff for Tahrpup is in the Tahrpup devx sfs.
So you need to load the Tahrpup devx sfs.
grab it from quickpet.

Mm. Okay. Right; can you open up 'mahjongg.desktop' in Geany, then do a copy'n'paste in your next reply, so's I can see what it looks like?

There are right (and wrong) ways to write .desktop entries, y'see. I've discovered, much to my disgust, that many 'professionally' put-together packages, from some of the major distros, even, have very badly-written .desktop entries. Most of our Puppy Forum 'packagers' do a way better job.....many of whom are complete amateurs, when all's said & done.

Stuff from Canonical, especially, often has mucho extraneous crap included, 'cos they're trying to cater for multiple DEs, y'see. Gnome; Unity; KDE; XFCE, etc.....and they all handle Menu entries in different ways. Usually, for Puppy packages, we tend to strip out all the superfluous junk, and try to just leave a clean, tidy, minimal bare-bones entry that will, nevertheless, do the job. You just want your Menu entry to start your application; what else d'you want it to do? Get up on the table, and start tap-dancing?

Anyway, it would be much appreciated if I could take a gander at the Mahjongg .desktop entry, please. We can then decide what needs doing from there.

EDIT:-

(There you go. bigpup may have hit the nail on the head with that last reply..)

Sorry, I did not notice you already had the correct devx sfs loaded.
I assume by stating "I am running devx-tahrpup64_6.0.5.sfs." that you have it loaded?

I am going to bootup Tahrpup 6.0.5 and see what it does for me.

In PPM you have recently updated the data base?_________________I have found, in trying to help people, that the things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected

Ok, in the Trusty repositories it is Mahjongg 3.10.2
Put mohjongg in the search slot and hit the search icon.
What is displayed is the search results.
The other columns do not apply to a search results.

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_________________I have found, in trying to help people, that the things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected

Have the Tahrpup64 devx sfs loaded.
Downloaded Frozen Bubble from a listed search of PPM.
Frozen Bubble and a bunch of dependencies installed.
Frozen Bubble_2.212

Menu>Fun>Frozen Bubble

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_________________I have found, in trying to help people, that the things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected

Just noticed the updated info.
I think I was composing the post when you updated the info.

We are Puppy!
Resistance is futile _________________I have found, in trying to help people, that the things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected

I updated all the repositories in Puppy Package Manager (PPM).
I downloaded Mahjongg 3.10.2 from Puppy Package Manager.

Mahjongg 3.10.2 is now working.
Frozen Bubble is now working.

I want to slim down the Mahjongg code as Mike suggests.
I'll work on that later tonight.

There are 33 games listed in menu/fun, most of which do not activate.
Some do, however, like Hexalate and IQPuzzle and gPlanarity.
Issue is solved as I was only looking for the two games, Mahjongg and Frozen Bubble. But, I'll continue to see about either getting the rest running or taking them off the menu.
Thank you bigpup and Mike Walsh
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